Improvement in wooden-hoop fastenings



'w. LSQUIRE. WOODEN HOOP FASTENING. No.179,621, Patented July 4,1876.

N. PEIERS, PHOTD-LITFOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D, 04

. NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILBUR J. SQUIRE, OF EAST HADDAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOODEN-HOOP FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,621, dated July 4,1876; application filed May 1, 1876.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known thatI, WILBUR J. S UIRE, of East Haddam, Middlesex county, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Wooden-Hoop Fastenings, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an edge view of a hoop secured by my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the metal band or loop.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved fastener for securing the overlapped ends of hoops.

The invention consists in a hoop-fastener formed by the combination of the metal band or loop with the notches formed in the lapped ends of a wooden hoop, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents a wooden hoop, the underlapping end of which is tapered to an edge.

In the inner surface of the underlapped end of the hoop A is formed a notch, and in the outer surface of the overlapped end is formed another notch. B is a metal band or loop, of such a sizethat the lapped ends of the hoop may he passed through it, so that When a strain comes upon the hoop A the side bars of the loop B may be drawn into the notches in the end parts of the hoop, and will hold the ends of the hoop together firmly.

Having described my in vention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A wooden hoop having its ends locked by a band, B, drawn into a notch in each end, as shown and described.

WILBUR J. SQUIRE. Witnesses:

W. 1%. GooDsPEED, GEORGE E. EMMoNs. 

